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Appalachia Cancer Network (ACN)

Principal Investigator: Stephen Wyatt, D.M.D. (swyatt@kcp.uky.edu)

  • Beaulieu,J, Galland,J, Fleming,S, Chen,K, Peng,X.
    Geographic variation in breast-conserving surgery in Kentucky's Medicare population.
    J.Ky.Med.Assoc. 2002;100(3):99-103.
    11911013
  • Beaulieu,JE, Massey,CS, Tucker,TC, Schoenberg,N, Ross,F.
    Rural-urban variation in breast-conserving surgery in Kentucky.
    J.Ky.Med.Assoc. 2003;101(10):455-459.
    14593790
  • Brown,P, Kennedy.
    Appalachia cancer research and care.
    West Virginia Research Magazine 2003.
  • Brown,P, Kennedy, Soisson.
    Cervical cancer study.
    West Virginia Research Magazine 2003.
  • Brown,P, Allen,AR.
    Obesity linked to some forms of cancer.
    W.V.Med.J. 2002;98(6):271-272.
    12645281
  • Carloss,H, Huang,B, Cohen,A, Carloss,E, Wyatt,S, Tucker,T.
    The impact of number of lymph nodes removed on five-year survival in stage II colon and rectal cancer.
    J.Ky.Med.Assoc. 2004;102(8):345-347.
    15384384
  • Coyne,CA, Demian-Popescu,C, Brown,P.
    Rural cancer patients' perspectives on clinical trials: a qualitative study.
    J.Cancer Educ. 2004;19(3):165-169.
    15458872
  • Hopenhayn,C, Moore,DB, Huang,B, Redmond,J, Tucker,TC, Kryscio,RJ, Boissonneault,GA.
    Patterns of colorectal cancer incidence, risk factors, and screening in Kentucky.
    South.Med.J. 2004;97(3):216-223.
    15043326
  • Huang,B, Wyatt,S, Tucker, Bottorff, Lengerich,EJ, Hall.
    Cancer death rates - Appalachia 1994 -98.
    Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports 2002;51(24):527-259.
  • Johnson,J, Andrews,J, Allard,S, Kelly,K, Case,D.
    From two-step flow to the internet: the changing array of sources for genetics information seeking.
    Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2005.
  • Kelly,K, Leventhal,H, Marvin,M, Toppmeyer,D, Baran,J, Schwalb,M.
    Cancer genetics knowledge and beliefs and receipt of results in Ashkenazi Jewish individuals receiving counseling for BRCA1/2 mutations.
    Cancer Control 2004;11(4):236-244.
    15284715
  • Kelly,K, Andrews,J, Case,D, Allard,S, Johnson,J.
    Distress about hereditary cancers: Are Appalachians different?
    Community Genetics 2005.
  • Lengerich,EJ, Tucker,TC, Powell,RK, Colsher,P, Lehman,E, Ward,AJ, Siedlecki,JC, Wyatt,SW.
    Cancer incidence in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia: disparities in Appalachia.
    J.Rural.Health 2005;21(1):39-47.
    15667008
  • Lengerich,EJ, Wyatt,SW, Rubio,A, Beaulieu,JE, Coyne,CA, Fleisher,L, Ward,AJ, Brown,PK.
    The Appalachia Cancer Network: cancer control research among a rural, medically underserved population.
    J.Rural.Health 2004;20(2):181-187.
    15085633
  • MacEachren,AM, Gahegan,M, Pike,W, Brewer,I, Cai,G, Lengerich,E, Hardisty,F.
    Geovisualization for knowledge construction and decision support.
    IEEE Comput.Graph.Appl. 2004;24(1):13-17.
    15384662
  • Wyatt,SW, Huang,B, Tucker,TC, Redmond,J, Hopenhayn,C.
    Geographic trends in cervical cancer incidence and mortality in Kentucky, 1995-2000.
    J.Ky.Med.Assoc. 2004;102(1):11-14.
    14971164
  • Wyatt,SW, Lancaster,M, Bottorff,D, Ross,F.
    History of tobacco use among Kentucky women diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer: 1997-1998.
    J.Ky.Med.Assoc. 2001;99(12):537-539.
    11787312
  • Wyatt,SW, Huang,B, Tucker,T.
    The impact of changing age-adjustment population standards on Kentucky's cancer incidence rates.
    J.Ky.Med.Assoc. 2003;101(2):71-72.
    12619329

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